Michigan Language Arts Content Expectations
A general resource for any practicing teacher.
DetentionSlip.org
An education blog where much of my news feed comes from.
Online Reading
The Underground History of American Education
An award–winning teacher pulls back the curtain to reveal the actual "fourth purpose" for which mass forced schooling was conceived.
Against School
How public education cripples our kids, and why.
Video Websites for the Classroom
TeacherTube
A collection of videos made by students and teachers, designed for classroom use.
Academic Lectures
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
Riveting talks by remarkable people.
Academic Earth
Online courses from the world's top scholars.
MIT World
Video coverage of significant events hosted at MIT.
BBC Learning
Collections of videos specifically for parents, teachers, and classrooms.
Documentaries About Education
We Are The People We've Been Waiting For
Explores the education system in the UK and asks whether the current system provides young people with the opportunity to develop their talents...This thought-provoking film offers insight across generations and nations, and reveals a very inconvenient truth about education.
The Lottery
Desperate to flee the failing public schools of their low-income neighborhoods, every year, thousands of parents enter their children into charter-school lotteries--but only a few win slots. This powerful documentary follows four families from Harlem and the Bronx as they struggle to get their preschoolers into charter school, and explores why so many students are deprived of the education they deserve.
